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A Kosher Foot

April 2, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

The pig has a complaint. Why does everyone give it a bad rap? Why is it the archtype of crudeness and bad character? There are plenty of unkosher animals in the world. Why is the pig singled out for such discrimination? Here's a message to live… [Read more...]

Where Are Our Friends?

March 26, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

On Monday, March 25, 2024, the USA enabled the UN Security Council to pass a unilateral condemnation of Israel calling for immediate withdrawal from Gaza. There was no demand of Hamas and no call to free the 134 Israeli captives. The USA could have vetoed this injustice, but didn't. Israel asks,… [Read more...]

Purim and Political Correctness

March 21, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

King Saul buckled under political pressure and failed to kill Agag, the Amalekite king. As a result, Haman was born ten generations later and plotted to annihilate the Jewish People. How did Mordechai, King Saul's great grandson, hold up to political correctness? What does all this have to do with… [Read more...]

The True National Leader

March 12, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

The story of the true national leader begins with Abraham, continues with King David and then with Mordechai. It will soon culminate with Moshiach. Our past is our future. One cannot understand current events in Israel without understanding the events that led to the miraculous downfall of our… [Read more...]

Israel Needs Both

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The debate that's ripping Israel apart: should Yeshiva students be drafted into the army or not? Who really protects our country, the soldiers or the Torah scholars? Rabbi Lazer Brody, who has been on both sides of the fence,… [Read more...]

Try a Hug

March 3, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

A distraught teacher was having terrible disciplinary problems with a boy in his class. He sought advice from the great Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Vozner, of blessed memory...… [Read more...]

Disposing of the Double Standard

February 25, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

Since we love ourselves, we have a long list of mitigating circumstances to justify everything we do wrong in life. But when someone else makes the same exact mistake, we're quick to judge and condemn. So many of us have an itchy trigger finger that's all too ready to put a bullet between the other… [Read more...]

Live It to Give It

February 8, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

Education is not preaching – it's personal example. A child's innate sense of justice cannot stand hypocrisy and inconsistency. A parent who preaches one thing yet practices otherwise is guaranteed to obtain the opposite results. In simple English, if you live it, you can give… [Read more...]

The Covet Culprit: Parshat Yitro

January 30, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

The Torah specifically says, "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife… nor anything that is your neighbor's" (Exodus 20:13). A person shrugs his shoulders in innocence and protests, "What's the big deal? Did I steal? Did I kill? Did I commit… [Read more...]

Saved by a Paper Cup

January 21, 2024 by Lazer Brody - Leave a Comment

Here's a miraculous story about a geriatric nurse in the south of Israel. By a few seconds, she avoided the swarm of Hamas terrorists that invaded her town of Ofakim on the infamous day of October 7, 2023. A paper cup saved her… [Read more...]

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The Book of Psalms in Spoken English